All language subtitles for The Detectives - 02x03 - Nine Shots (English)

I'd never been to Chatham
before I was posted there.

Chatham, at the time, was very quiet.

Everybody knew everybody.

You never had to lock your doors.

But as things progressed
through the years,

it became known as the place for drugs.

That evening, Constable Mark Gransden

from the OPP had just pulled off
the road to do some notes up.

It was just a matter of coincidence

that he was there at
that particular time.

Ma'am!

- Help me, please! Help me!
- Are you OK?

- Help me, I need help!
- Are you injured?

- No. Help me!
- OK, tell me what happened.

They're dead. I think they're dead.

- Where?
- Oh, my son. My son, Jasen.

- Where's Jasen?
- Tell me where they are.

Come. This way.

Even though
I've been to other homicides,

personally I've never seen
such a vicious attack.

I just couldn't completely understand

who would do this to gentle old people.

I need something to stop the bleeding.

It was just... horrible.

- Who did this to you?
- Two boys...

It's a sick feeling.

I will never, ever be the same.

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I remember the date very,
very well because

it was my son's birthday.

October 18th, 1991.

My son was actually playing hockey

and I was hoping I'd catch
a few minutes of the game.

But it didn't work out that way.

I arrived at the scene.

The ambulance was just down the road.

I knew this was going to be
something that was very difficult.

I'm walking up the stairs, I'm
just sort of reminding myself

to stay calm, stay focussed,

keep your eyes open.

You've got a job to do.

- Did you clear the house?
- No. No time.

Is there anyone else in the house?

My son's supposed to be home.

OK, I need you to wait right here.

We don't know who's up there.
If your son's here,

I'll find him.

I needed to secure this house

before we go too much further.

I was concerned that the people
that did this are still around.

You get tense. You're tight.
You know you should relax

so you can stay focused.

You feel the hair on the back
of your neck curl...

because you don't know if
somebody's there waiting for you.

Jasen Pangburn's bedroom was upstairs.

Jasen should have been in the house;

he should have been home from school.

But Jasen Pangburn
was not in his bedroom.

He had guns that he kept up
there. The guns were gone.

And so was Jasen.

Could he possibly be
the one that did it?

She was awake when I got here,
you know. She looked so scared.

Yeah. Is this her house?

Connie Pangburn. It's her place.

She lives here with her husband,
Richard, and her son, Jasen.

Virginia's Richard's mom.

Alfred's his step dad.
EMTs found a pulse on him, too.

OK, OK. They're in good hands.
Virginia say anything?

She said "two boys" did this to her.

- Anything else?
- No names.

In the bathroom where Alfred Critchley

had fallen backwards,
he knocked the plug out

of the clock on the wall.

And to me, that gave us the time
of when he was attacked,

five-twelve p.m.

You didn't find him in there, did you?

He's not inside the house.

Do you have any idea somewhere
else where he could be?

No. He was supposed to be in the
house packing for the Reserves.

- The Reserves?
- They were going on

a training trip this week.
Maybe he left early?

All right. Well, let's check that out.

I noticed a gun rack in Jasen's bedroom.

Yeah, those are his rifles.

He uses it for hunting
and for the Reserves.

The guns were missing.

What?

Well, maybe he brought
them to the Regiment?

Connie, do you have any idea

who Virginia meant
when she said "two boys"?

OK. Uh, Connie, is your husband around?

He's outside of town. I just called him.

I'm gonna need you to go
down to the station.

I'm going to send an officer
to ride with you.

No! I need to say here and find my son!

Connie, the best way
that you can help is to go

to the station, tell us everything
you know, anything that can help.

We have a full team here
looking for him.

We'll find him.
We won't leave until we do.

Connie was an amazing lady for

what she went through, and you could see

that she wanted to help.

She told me that Jasen may be
down across the road

back in the bush where he usually
goes to test fire his guns.

I explained to the dog-handler
that the first sweep should be

around the house, then the back field,

then go across the road
and check the bush down there.

In the meantime,
we'd interviewed the neighbors

to see if they'd seen anything.

Any little tidbit of
information that would help.

This guy says he saw something.

What'd you see?

I've seen a grey-blue
pickup truck parked outside

a couple of hours ago.
But it's gone now.

Do you know the people who live here?

No. I'm just staying
at the motel next door.

I came over to see what all
the commotion is about.

We're looking for this guy.
Have you seen him?

Detective! The dog
handler, he saw something.

- Where?
- Across the street.

OK. This officer will take
your statement. Thank you.

It was about an hour and a half later

that the dog-handler located
Jasen Pangburn's remains

covered up in the bush.

Somebody had dropped a rock on his head.

And all you could see was

the side of his face,
Jasen Pangburn's face.

Copy that.

The Critchleys,
Alfred died in the surgery.

Virginia never made it to the hospital.

It's a worst-case scenario.

Now you know you've got
three family members

that have been murdered.

It was upsetting.

The fact that somebody's
been killed is always

a difficult notification.

To have them all from the same family,

one a son, one a mother and father.

As a parent myself,

um, it made it even more difficult.

Have you found Jasen?

I'm afraid we have.

I'm very sorry.

No. No.

We found a body

near the house.

It matches his description.

That was a long day.

A very long day.

That one I will never, ever forget.

Who did this?

We found Jasen
Pangburn's remains covered up

in the bush. The scene was so horrific,

but one of the things
that amazed me about both

Richard and Connie was
that there was no anger.

There was no anger.
All they wanted to know,

"Will you catch these people
that did it?"

They just wanted them caught,

because they wanted to find out why.

Reporters are asking
if it's a murder-suicide.

Troubled teen, kills his
grandparents then kills himself.

Lots of speculation.

We don't know what happened or
how Jasen died, but when we do,

we're not going to tell
the press anything.

Don't give them any more gossip.

Got it.

Seventy-five-year-old Alfred Critchley

and his seventy-three-year-old
wife, Virginia

were found stabbed in their son's
home on the outskirts of Chatham.

The body of their
nineteen-year-old grandson

was later discovered in a neary
ravine by a police tracking do.

Police are not saying
what kind of weapon was used

in the slayings, but
post-mortems are being conductd

and the results are expected
to be released tomorrow.

I attended all
post-mortems that were done

on Virginia, Alfred Critchley,
as well as on Jasen Pangburn.

The attack on Alfred
was fairly straightforward.

Alfred was stabbed three times.

Virginia, on the other hand,
twenty-three stab wounds.

Jugular was severed;
she died of blood loss.

She must have fought hard.
Lot of defensive wounds.

Yeah, three shallow stab wounds.

Barely punctured the skin.
The rest of them were deep.

With Virginia's post-mortem,

the, uh...

horrific attack that was put
on this elderly lady

was something that was very difficult.

The coroner counted twenty-three
or twenty-four stab wounds

in Virginia's body.

It was a completely vicious
attack on that poor lady.

There's more.

We pulled that twenty-two-calibre bullet

from Jasen's heart.

Jasen was shot?

Why stab the grandparents?

Maybe it was personal.

It was definitely a surprise

that Jasen was shot.

The viciousness on the adults was

completely different from the
quick kill of Jasen Pangburn.

So if they had a gun and
they shot Jasen Pangburn,

why did they kill the
grandparents with knives?

That part just didn't make sense.

Pangburn wasn't stabbed; he was shot.

Why shoot Pangburn and
stab the grandparents?

Well, maybe they used
the guns from his locker.

Defender shotgun, AK, Lee-Enfield rifle.

All legally acquired.

None of these guns fired
the bullet we pulled

out of Jasen's body.

The killers must have
brought their own weapon.

So, let me get this straight:

the two boys rob the house,

stab the grandparents,
even though they had a gun,

stole Pangburn's weapons, and then
took him out to the woods to kill him?

Why do it that way?

Well, maybe it was the other way around.

Maybe they shot Pangburn,
stabbed the grandparents,

then stole the gun.

That still doesn't explain why
they stabbed the grandparents

when they had a gun.

OK. Let's focus on what we do know.

Now, the Critchleys were
stabbed at five-twelve p.m.

Now, a witness saw a blue-grey
truck parked out front.

Now, Virginia said two boys did it.

Did anyone else see two boys?

A neighbour down the street
saw three boys hanging out

by the area where the body was found.

Jasen and the two killers. Did
the neighbour see anything else,

notice what time it was?
Was Jasen stressed?

Was he being coerced?

No, just kids hanging out.

I want to speak to that neighbour.

That neighbor saw these
three boys crossing the road

and then going across into the field.

Did you notice anything
suspicious about them?

No, they looked like friends.

Was Jasen Pangburn with them?

All I noticed was one of them
was wearing a Penguins sweater.

Mostly Wings and Leafs fans around here.

And what time was this
when you saw them?

I'd say late afternoon, around
four-fifteen, maybe four-twenty.

At four-twenty, three
young men went across the road.

One of them was wearing a
Pittsburgh Penguin hockey sweater.

That indicated to us that
Jasen Pangburn was killed first

out in the bush. Then they came back

and the clock is knocked off
of the bathroom at five-twelve.

The key thing, breaking
the investigation wide open,

was locating that Pittsburgh
Penguin hockey sweater.

You have two crime scenes.

You've got one at the house

and you've got one down in the bush.

In the house, they're stabbed.
Jasen Pangburn was shot.

Jasen was probably killed first
and then they came back

and killed the grandparents.

The people in Chatham were
very unnerved by what happened.

The tragedy that's unfolding

in this east-side Chatham home
spans three generations.

The house is just on
the outskirts of Chatham,

so the Ontario Provincial Polie
are handling the investigation.

It's especially upsetting
to neighbors because

there's never been a triple
homicide in this area

in anyone's recent memory.

It scares the hell out of me, you know,

for my mom and dad's safety and for
all the rest of the neighbors.

We'll keep our doors
locked all the time now

and we'll look around for
any strangers walking around

or anything, so...

There's a lot of media coverage.

There's a lot of talk about this.

There's concern that the police
haven't solved this yet.

There's stories in the newspaper
about keeping your doors locked

and don't let your children outside.

We tried to assure citizens of Chatham

that this matter's gonna be solved.

We think what happened in
Chatham was an isolated incident.

We don't believe it's
a public safety issue.

People are saying that
it was a cult murder

like the Manson family.

There is no evidence to
support cult involvement

and we don't think there's an
active serial killer in the area.

And I'd advise anyone
spreading rumours to stop.

It creates fear and it hurts
the victim's families.

Do you have any idea who did this?

We have a few leads that
we're looking into.

But we need your help.

We're looking for a young man

who was wearing a Pittsburgh
Penguins jersey that night.

If you have any information,
any information at all,

please contact the police
station or Crime Stoppers.

They seemed quite relieved that

they got that information
because it was something

they could say, "OK, yes,
they're looking for something.

They're looking for the Pittsburgh
Penguins hockey sweater."

The big thing for us was
understanding why it happened.

People don't just kill for no reason.

Do you have any idea who
might have wanted to harm them?

God, no.

Alfred was a good man, a veteran.

He was wonderful to my mother.

And what about Jasen?

Jasen was a great kid.

He didn't get into trouble.
He wasn't into drugs

or hanging with the wrong crowd.

Would you know if he was?

He would tell us, Detective.

Of course.

Virginia mentioned two boys.

Do you have any idea who they might be?

Any of Jasen's friends
Pittsburgh Penguins fans?

One last thing. Does a blue-grey

pickup truck mean anything to you?

A few weeks ago, there was
a young man who came by

in a blue-grey pickup truck.
He came for Jasen.

Do you remember his name?

I don't remember. He told me,
but I, I can't remember.

Do you remember anything else about him?

Just that he spoke like a soldier.

He asked for Private Pangburn.

The guy that came
was wearing military-type clothing.

She didn't know who the guy
was but Jasen told

his mother, he said, "I don't
like that guy. He scares me."

Excuse me. I need to speak
with your commanding officer.

All right.

Never been a member of the reserves,

but I knew the layout of the armories.

They stress discipline and
respect in their training.

Seems like a great group here.
You all get along?

Being part of the regiment
means learning to get along.

Ah, it's good. You knew uh,
Jason Pangburn, right?

Everyone knew Private Pangburn.

We're planning a wake in his honour.

Oh, that must have been quite a shock.

Sorry, son. A wake's a good idea.

When members of the armories found out

what we were looking into,

they were more than cooperative
because they had just lost

a member. A member was
just brutally murdered.

Anyone here drive a
grey-blue pickup truck?

I'm sorry, I'm not sure.

We have some one hundred and
eighty young reservists enlisted.

I wish they were all
like Private Pangburn.

How do you mean?

He was a natural for the military life,

the drills, the basic training.

Never had to tell him anything twice.

Anyone here not like Pangburn?

Not that I heard of.

How about brushes with the
law? Problems with discipline?

Some cadets come to us for a fresh start

after problems at school

or at home, perhaps with the police.

Never anything to do
with Private Pangburn.

He was a popular kid, a good soldier,

an excellent marksman.

Marksman. Hear he had
quite the gun collection.

Yes. He'd bring his guns
in every now and then.

You think some of the boys
might have helped themselves

to those guns?

I can't see it.

Besides, these are good kids.

The next morning,
we got a tip that a reservist

in the armories,
Stephen Hill, was wearing

a Pittsburgh Penguin hockey
sweater the day of the murder.

Private Hill?

I'm Detective Peter Baker of
the Ontario Provincial Police.

I have a few questions for you.

Am I in trouble, sir?

You knew Jasen Pangburn, right?

Kind of. A fellow Reservist.

But you went to high school with him?

He was a senior. I'm still in grade ten.

It's not like we were
best friends or anything.

You heard what happened to him?

Of course. It's terrible.

You wear a Penguins jersey,
don't you, son?

I used to, but then I lost it.

Really? When?

A couple of weeks ago.

Someone saw you wearing it on Friday.

Who said that?

Is it true?

No. Um, I don't know who told you that,

but they're wrong.

He was definitely
holding something back.

When you talk to him and
you say, "Well, you know,

do you know somebody has
a Penguins Sweater,"

uh, he'd look off to the side and say,

"No." "Did you give
your sweater to somebody?"

"Uh, no." So he was very, uh, evasive.

Can I go now? Sorry,

- I have an appointment.
- Sure.

- Don't want to be late.
- Yeah.

It was while I was getting ready to go

that I got a call on my radio.

This is Baker.

We just got a call
for another gun robbery.

Where?

Cofell Farm out in Dover Township.

It's another Reservist.

I don't know if I was surprised.

It just seemed kind of strange
that within several days

we have two thefts of
a large quantity of guns.

I was definitely scared.

That's a whole lot of people
stealing guns.

I received a report from

our uniform officers who had
investigated the break-in

at the Cofell Farm.

Jason Cofell had reported
that somebody had broken

into their house and stole all his guns.

I thought to myself

"Another break and
enter with guns stolen

from a member of the armories."

It was too close to be a coincidence.

I had met Doug and Catherine Cofell

quite a few years before this happened.

They were caring people

and I knew that Jason Cofell
was their oldest son.

So, other than the guns,

did you notice anything else missing?

Just the weapons, um,
a shotgun, a rifle,

two Glock handguns,
and a twenty-two pistol.

And where do you keep the guns?

Uh, here in the home.

- Was the house locked?
- Yes.

- You mind if I take a look?
- Yeah, sure.

Locks look... they look good. Sturdy.

Is that you, son?

Yes, sir.

Well, that suits you. Military?

Thank you, sir. Reserves.

He had a blue pickup truck.

Connie Pangburn mentioned
this military guy coming with

this light blue-grey truck and
asking for Private Pangburn.

Jason's eyes just sort of changed and

he just just sort of glared
and they got dark.

And right away in my mind,

I'm thinking there's
something he's hiding.

When did you notice the guns missing?

When I got home from school today.

- Did you drive to school?
- Yes, sir.

In that blue-grey pickup
truck parked out back?

Yeah.

So um, your route home,

do you, uh, drive past the marina?

Uh, no. I take um, Main Street usually.

Well, how about Friday? Did
you drive past the marina then?

Um, the break-in was today, not Friday.

Oh, I know. It's just that, uh,

the marina's right by
Jasen Pangburn's house.

You heard about that, right?

You knew him?

A little, um, from Reserves.

We went to different schools so...

I was just wondering,
if you were around there,

you might have seen something
that could help us out.

I wasn't around there that day so...

Someone saw a blue-grey
pickup truck around there.

When I asked him that question,

he looked off to the side.

I could tell there was something,

something bothering him.

That's when he changed the story.

Is that the marina on Grand Avenue East?

That's the one.

Yeah, um, I think I might have
actually been around there Friday.

I stopped by a store
on my way home from school.

Sorry. It just slipped my mind.

His whole tone changed

from the time he came in to the
point where we started talking

about him going out the highway.

And I thought "we'll follow up on this."

But I didn't let him know
he was a suspect.

Well, if, uh, anything comes to mind,

uh, about the guns or
anything else, you'll, uh,

let me know. OK?

Yeah. Thanks, Detective.
I appreciate it.

That day, the
detachment where I work out of

received a call from a
locksmith who had just been

to a residence in Chatham
where he had seen these boys

with these guns.

The murders took place
on the 18th; he was called

at approximately 2:30, 3:00
in the morning on the 19th

by a young man who said
his name was Mark Hooper.

Mr. Hooper?

I'm Detective Peter Baker of
the Ontario Provincial Police.

I have a few questions for you.

What happened the other night?

I just went out to get
my friends and got locked out.

Your friends?

Stephen Hill and Jason Cofell.

Do you know them from school?

No, just the Regiment.
We're all in it together.

The locksmith
unlocked the door for them.

And he saw Hooper and another guy

and this Pittsburgh Penguins hockey guy,

and they were carrying something
wrapped in a heavy blanket.

What were they bringing
inside the house?

Guns.

Do you know where they got the guns?

Are the guns still inside the house?

No. Cofell took them back.

I don't know what happened after that.

But you knew Jasen Pangburn, right?

I had nothing to do with that.

I thought he was just messing around!

Mr. Hooper, you're gonna
need to tell me what happened.

Cofell hated Pangburn.

He was always worried he'd rat him out.

Why would he rat him out?

Cofell had a thing with guns.

He was collecting them. I guess some
of them might have been stolen.

I'm gonna need you to come down

to the station and
tell us what happened.

With the information
we got from Mike Hooper,

we started putting together a
case focused on Jason Cofell.

I knew that Jason Cofell
had stolen the guns.

We had to act quickly.

We needed to get Jason Cofell
off the street.

I wanted to arrest Cofell
early in the morning

on his way to school.

We don't know if he's got guns.

We don't know what
he's got in the vehicle.

We had to get him away from

other people, in an open area

where he couldn't affect anybody else.

I don't think there's a more dangerous

situation for a police officer
than a face-to-face

with somebody pointing a gun at you.

That wasn't going to happen.

Jason Cofell pulled his truck
to the side of the road.

At that point,
the other two cars came up

so that he couldn't run;

he couldn't go anywhere.

It went like clockwork.

Hands on your head!

Get out of the car, now!

Hands on the vehicle.

The vital part of the arrest

of Jason Cofell was
to get him off the street.

That was the main thing.

The secondary was to find the guns.

He was very quiet,
didn't say a whole lot.

I had some doubt as to whether
he was gonna say anything.

I wasn't going to be getting
a confession,

so we needed some concrete
evidence that would tie Cofell

to the three murders.

We needed the guns.

You and Stephen Hill were seen
bringing guns into a home.

Doesn't mean I killed him.

But you wanted to kill him.

Where'd you get the guns?

Those were my guns.

I bought them

from a sketchy-looking guy.

I don't know, gang members, I think.

So you bought stolen guns?

How was I supposed to know
they were stolen?

Where are the guns?

I stashed them.

Where?

Cofell said the guns were in a ditch

in Dover Township.
We went out to that ditch

and there were no guns.

There was no indication anything
had been in that ditch other

than weeds.

We needed some concrete evidence.

The vital part was to find
Jasen Pangburn's guns.

They would tie Cofell
to the three murders.

I had talked to Doug and Cathy.

Neither wanted to believe that their
son would do something like that.

I don't understand.

This says murder... three murders.

My son didn't do this.

We're just going to need to
take a look around. That's all.

We searched the back area first.

Hiding things on farmland,
very difficult to find.

If they're hidden properly.

When we were conducting
the search of the barn,

initially I wasn't sure
we'd find any guns there.

You're going in, even with
two officers, you're tense,

but that keeps you focused.

We found all of the guns,

the guns he reported stolen,

the guns stolen from the
Pangburn residence, some AK-47s.

Jackpot!

We found the
wallet and the personal papers

of Alfred Critchley...

Here's his wallet.

And a twenty-two-caliber handgun.

The twenty-two-calibre was
the murder weapon

that was used to kill Jasen Pangburn.

We found a book.

What the hell is the Orion Foundation?

No idea.

"The Orion Foundation".

Their objective was to try and
clean up the streets in Chatham,

get rid of the drug dealers,
and kill them.

In this book, there was a list of people

and they were all assigned a rank.

Jason Cofell was their leader.

Stephen Hill was a follower.

I was pretty sure we'd get
a confession from him.

How long were you in
The Orion Foundation?

About a year, I guess.

How did it all start?

Cofell asked if I wanted
to go up to his farm

and shoot off a couple of rounds.

I said sure. I got up there;

there were a few other guys
from school, the Reserves.

He got talking about Chatham,

about all the drug dealers,

about all the violence,

about how maybe we could do better

than the cops at cleaning it up.

And did you ever get around
to doing any of that,

uh, sticking up drug dealers?

No.

Was Jasen Pangburn even involved

- in The Orion Foundation?
- No.

Then why kill him?

I didn't know that was going to happen.

I swear!

Cofell just asked me if
I wanted to go on a mission.

What kind of mission?

We drove over to Pangburn's place.

Cofell took out a gun,
a nine-shot twenty-two.

He knocked on the door and, uh,

the old man answered.

And that was it, he just
came out, no questions asked?

No. He wanted us to leave.

But then Cofell showed him the gun.

A nine-shot revolver. Pretty rare.

He offered to sell it.

We all knew that Pangburn
liked shooting guns.

Jasen got excited when he saw
the .22. He looked at me;

he looked at the gun and said

he wanted to test fire it.

It was a trap.

Jason Cofell was thinking to himself,

"Good, Jasen Pangburn's taking me

to a place where I can kill him."

They went across the road,
went down across the field.

They got down into the ravine
where Jasen Pangburn does

his target practice.

The .22-caliber gun that Jason
Cofell had was a nine-shot gun.

Jasen Pangburn fired the gun
three times into a tree.

Your turn.

Stephen Hill
also fired the gun three times.

Jason Cofell stood...

fired two rounds into the tree...

put his hand and the gun
down by his side...

Hey, Cofell. You still got a shot left.

Cofell?

Jason Cofell fired

right into the heart of Jasen Pangburn.

Why'd you shoot me?

Because you pissed me off.

He made me bury the body with leaves

and then he said we had
to go back to the house.

Why?

The grandparents saw us.

Cofell told

Stephen Hill, "We're going to go
back and kill the grandparents.

And if you don't do it,
I'm gonna kill you

and I'm gonna kill your parents."

So what happened next?

He gave me a knife.

He said he would take the old
man; I'd take the old lady.

So we went back to the house.

Cofell went to take the old man
and I stayed with her.

And I stabbed her, like he said,

but I didn't want to kill her!

I tried not to go too deep.

When Cofell came back in the room

and he saw that she was still alive,

he stabbed her over

and over and over and he wouldn't stop.

At that point, Mr. Critchley came out

of the bathroom and yelled at
them and Jason Cofell ran over

and stabbed him three times
and he fell back

into the bathroom, knocking out
the cord on the clock.

Jason Cofell went upstairs,
he got the guns, came down,

stole Mr. Critchley's wallet
from his pocket,

put them in the truck and drove away.

It was probably just a matter

of coincidence that Constable
Mark Gransden from the OPP was

down the street. He has just
pulled off the road

to do some notes up.

Jason Cofell told Stephen Hill,

"If anybody saw us, we were
going to have to go back

and kill everybody."

That was his mom.

She saw us; we're gonna have
to take care of it.

Going back.

Shit!

And it possibly
could have happened that way

had there not been
a police officer there.

Jason Cofell never showed any
emotion or any remorse at all.

Cofell went after Pangburn because
he had this hate for him.

He shot Jasen Pangburn in the heart.

I have never seen anything so
vicious as this guy's mind.

There were many, many lives that
will never, ever be the same.

Jasen Pangburn wasn't a follower.

He was a good, quiet young man.

His grandparents were just
enjoying their retirement.

They were nice, caring people.

Unfortunately, uh,
the Critchleys were just there

in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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